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Re: [Xen-devel] Re: HOWTO make PV drivers for 2.6.32.11 domU HVM

To: Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: HOWTO make PV drivers for 2.6.32.11 domU HVM
From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:51:44 +0300
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On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:44:51PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
>
>
> --On 24 April 2010 22:47:24 +0100 Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Question: this may be a very naive question, but would it not make
>> life simpler for people if those distributing the xenify parch set
>> (the ones I grabbed from google) also distributed an "unmodified_drivers"
>> directory with the path mangling done by mkbuildtree already in place.
>> Then it would be simply a matter of going into unmodified_drivers
>> and calling a script that sets XEN= and XL= and calls make. This would
>> avoid the need to bring down the entire xen source, and would mean
>> only combining two potions, rather than three. As far as I can tell,
>> it doesn't actually /need/ the xen source, though I may be wrong. And
>> pv drivers built this way work with older versions (I've tried 3.3)
>> as well as Xen 4.0.
>
> By which I mean, if this tgz
>  http://www.alex.org.uk/pvdrivers.tgz
> were just expanded into (say) Andrew Lyon's gentoo patch, all you would
> need to do instead of my step 2 would be
>  cd pvdrivers
>  ./build.sh
> and you'd be done. No hg clone etc.
>

Nice work with the HOWTO! 

And yeah.. providing .tgz like that sounds like a good thing, for the time 
being,
until pv-on-hvm drivers are in the mainline Linux.

You want to do it / host it? :)

-- Pasi


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